Mike D'Antoni Is Guilty of Everything

The man who resigned as Knicks coach last week has been many things to many people, almost all of them bad. But does all the criticism add up? I wrote about it at The Classical:

D’Antoni is neither out to destroy basketball nor a conservative with a slightly different cut of suit. In fact, he’s almost entirely a product of this era, less a dreamer or despot and more a pragmatist who didn’t see an opposition between extremes of order and fluidity. Between the new rules that made it easier for a point guard like Nash to maneuver around the floor and manipulate space with minimal intrusion, and the dwindling ranks of NBA big men, D’Antoni saw an opening and concocted means of exploiting it. Above all else, he’s an opportunist.

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